darklord wrote: > > On Monday 03 June 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: > > And this leads to the simple conclusion that if one has physical access to > > a computer, then security is largely out the window. Any clown could come > > in and bootup with a rescue disk (addressing the linux aspect) and do > > whatever to your drives. If they had the time, they could also bring in a > > set of linux distro disks and reinstall linux their way. > > > > The only way to prevent this is to turn off the booting from CD in bios and > > password protecting bios, but then, with physical access it is trivial to > > kill the bios password (just crack the case and remove the mobo battery for > > a minute - bios settings are back to default and accessible without a > > password).
Unless your mobo flashroms the password; came across this and had to get tech support to explain that first you must remove the battery, THEN you must pull a jumper, then you must short out some pins on the BIOS chip where it is soldered to the board....little paranoid maybe? > > > > Thus, I see no harm at all in hearing the means one would use to create a > > UID 0 person, append them to passwd and create an appropriately > > formatted/encrypted shadow password for them in /etc/shadow. > > > > praedor > > Hehehehe, I've got mine disabled in BIOS, and my case is hardware locked. Of > course, if someone has access to my system, then they've already gotten into
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